TURKEY WARNS U.S. ARMENIA GENOCIDE BILL WILL HARM TIES

EurasiaNet, NY
Oct 8 2007

The head of Turkey’s Parliament has warned the United States against
passing an Armenian genocide bill, saying that the move would harm
bilateral ties.

Parliament speaker Koksal Toptan said in a letter to House of
Representative’s Speaker Nancy Pelosi that it might take decades to
heal the negative effects of the bill.

The genocide bill declares the killings of more than 1.5 million
Armenians between 1915 and 1917 a systematic genocide by the Ottoman
Turks — something which Ankara denies.